ותקחה

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Hebrew[edit]

Verb[edit]

וַתִּקָּחֶהָ (vatikachéha)

  1. (rare form) (And) (she/it) took her/it: third-person feminine singular vav-consecutive imperfect (hence past tense) of לָקַח (lakách), with a third-person feminine singular pronoun suffixed as direct object.
    • Tanach, Exodus 2:5, with translation of the Darby Bible:
      וַתִּשְׁלַח אֶת אֲמָתָהּ וַתִּקָּחֶהָ
      and sent her handmaid and fetched it
  2. (rare form) (And) (you) took her/it: second-person masculine singular vav-consecutive imperfect (hence past tense) of לָקַח (lakách), with a third-person feminine singular pronoun suffixed as direct object.
    • a. 1869, אברהם דובער בן־חיים (לעבענזאהן)‏,‎ "שיר הלולים", in, 1869, שירי שפת קדש, volume 2, Vilnius, page 145 [1]:
      צִפּוֹר מָצָאתָ
      וַתִּקָּחֶהָ
      a bird you have found / and you have taken it